Hurvin Anderson [Hardcover]

This is the first comprehensive overview of the career to date of British artist Hurvin Anderson (b.1965). Anderson is known for painting loosely rendered observations of scenes and spaces loaded with personal or communal meaning.

Andersons painting style is notable for the ease with which he slips between figuration and abstraction, playing with the tropes of earlier landscape traditions and 20th-century abstraction. His paintings of barbershop interiors, country tennis clubs and tropical roadsides teem with rich brushwork and multitudes of decorative patterns or architectural features, at once obscuring and adding to underlying ruminations on identity and place.

Drawing on interviews with the artist, Michael J. Prokopow offers a critical assessment of Hurvin Andersons painting practice to date that will be enlightening for all students, dealers and collectors of contemporary painting.This book examines the way in which the work of British artist Hurvin Anderson has developed since the late 1990s to incorporate installation, prints and photographs within the idiom of painting. Michael J. Prokopow is an historian and curator. He has published widely on contemporary expressive culture, critical theory, modernism and aesthetics. He divides his time between London and Toronto where he is a faculty member at OCAD University. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.Prologue: 'To be Constantly Aware'; Chapter 1: 'Where Cultures Meet or Don't Meet'; Chapter 2: 'A Shared Elsewhere'; Chapter 3: 'A Sense of Somebodiness'; Chapter 4: 'Gardening in the Tropics'; Epilogue: 'Uninhibited Dialogue'; Selected Bibliography; Education; Awards/Fellowships/Commissions; Solo Exhibitions; Group Exhibitions; Public Collections; Acknowledgements; IndexThis is the first comprehensive overview of the career to date of British artist Hurvin Anderson (b.1965). 'Hurvin Anderson is in many ways a painter both of our time and for our time, able to lend abstraction and reprel{